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Directed by Wim Wenders • 1977 • Germany Starring Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz Wim Wenders pays loving homage to rough-and-tumble Hollywood film noir with THE AMERICAN FRIEND, a loose adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel “Ripley’s Game.” Dennis Hopper oozes quirky menace as an amoral America...
American Friends is a 1991 British film starring Michael Palin. It was written by Palin and its director, Tristram Powell. Plot. Palin plays Francis Ashby, a ...
Picture 9/10. Wim Wenders’ The American Friend, the director’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game, makes its Blu-ray debut in North America through The Criterion Collection, presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1. The film receives a new 1080p/24hz high-definition digital presentation taken from a new 4K scan of ...
"In THE AMERICAN FRIEND, acclaimed director Wim Wenders transforms Patricia Highsmiths Ripleys Game into a gripping European noir. Professional frame maker Jonathan (Bruno Ganz) has been diagnosed with a terminal blood disease. A chance encounter with the enigmatic Tom Ripley (Dennis Hopper) offers him a way to ensure a stable future for his ...
American Friends: Directed by Tristram Powell. With Bryan Pringle, Fred Pearson, Michael Palin, Alfred Molina. Reverend Francis Ashby (Sir Michael Palin), a senior Oxford don on vacation alone in the Alps, meets vacationing American Miss Caroline Hartley (Connie Booth) and her companion Miss Elinor Hartley (Trini Alvarado), the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before.
Jan 12, 2016 · Jan 12, 2016. H aunting, playful, and subtly daring, Wim Wenders’s The American Friend (1977) exemplifies the best of what can happen when one visionary takes as his inspiration the work of another, using it to explore and express his own obsessions. The film is loosely based on Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game, and (even more loosely ...
Jan 26, 2000 · Dennis Hopper's Ripley offers one of the actor's greatest moments: a tortured, lone sociapath - an American stranded in the Old World and pursuing his own self-destructive impulses. Although ...
